NYCDH Week

NYCDH Kickoff Event 2022: NYCDH Supporting One Another
2022-02-07 12:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Online, New York, NY, United States
“Finding, Cultivating, and Sustaining Support for Your DH Project.”
This year’s NYCDH Week will kick off with a roundtable that will bring into conversation a variety of perspectives on the services, structures, and approaches necessary to conceive of and execute successful digital projects from experts in this field. The roundtable and subsequent discussion will help familiarize our NYCDH community with the wide range of structures of support that are available to NYCDH members and how to go about gaining access to that support.
We are proud to announce that our roundtable participants include:
Jennifer Serventi – Senior Program Officer, Office of Digital Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities.

Jennifer is a Senior Program Officer in the Office of Digital Humanities. In that office, she works with the Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program and the Digital Humanities Advancement Grants programs. Prior to joining ODH in 2007, she served in NEH’s Divisions of Research and Education Programs. Before coming to the Endowment in 1994, she was a staff member at the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Moacir P. de Sá Pereira (he/his/him) – Research Data Librarian at Columbia University Libraries

Moacir is a scholar of literature and space. He taught at New York University, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, and l’École nationale des chartes before coming to Columbia.

Jim Groom – co-founder Reclaim Hosting

Jim is the co-founder of Reclaim Hosting, an independent web hosting company focused on the higher education community. Previously he was the director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies and adjunct professor at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. His current passions are 80s arcade cabinets and exploring how to use Docker to open up the possibilities of cloud-based hosting for academics and beyond.

Jason Rhody – Director Digital Culture Program, Social Data Initiative, and the Media & Democracy program at the Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

Jason directs the Digital Culture program, Social Data Initiative, and the Media & Democracy program at the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). Previously, he served as senior program officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), where he helped create the Office of Digital Humanities (ODH). In that role, he developed and managed multiple grant programs that enabled scholars, librarians, and archivists to harness emerging technologies to advance research, encourage scholarly inquiry of digital culture, and foster collaboration across international and disciplinary boundaries. Jason received his PhD in English from the University of Maryland where, prior to joining NEH in 2003, he managed and advised digital humanities projects at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and taught courses in literature and digital media.

Katina Rogers – Independent Scholar

Katina is an educational consultant, working with institutions to design and implement structures that are creative, sustainable, and equitable. She has over a decade of experience as an administrator, researcher, and faculty member, and is the author of Putting the Humanities Ph.D. to Work: Thriving in and beyond the Classroom (Duke University Press, 2020). Katina’s scholarly work focuses on higher education reform, including scholarly communication practices, professionalization and career development, public scholarship, and advocacy for fair labor policies.

2022 Award Winners
As is tradition, following the introduction and kickoff roundtable we will be announcing the winners of our annual Graduate Student awards with presentations by the winners

First Place
Nicole Cote (Graduate Center, CUNY), “VisDepot: An Introductory Resource for Data Visualization”

Second Place
Corey D Clawson (Rutgers University-Newark), “Archivepelago: Mapping Queer Exile and Artistic Influence Using Graph Database Technology”

Third Place Mention
Julia G. Fuller (Graduate Center, CUNY), ‘Visual Vixens”

Honorable Mention
Lauren Busser (New York University), “Knitted Soft Circuits for S.T.E.A.M Education”

Honorable Mention
Ian Gregory (Pratt Institute), “Mental Acuity Bot for the Elderly (MABel)”

First Place
Nicole Cote (Graduate Center, CUNY), “VisDepot: An Introductory Resource for Data Visualization”
Second Place
Corey D Clawson (Rutgers University-Newark), “Archivepelago: Mapping Queer Exile and Artistic Influence Using Graph Database Technology”
Third Place
Mention Julia G. Fuller (Graduate Center, CUNY), ‘Visual Vixens”
Honorable Mention
Lauren Busser (New York University), “Knitted Soft Circuits for S.T.E.A.M Education”
Honorable Mention
Ian Gregory (Pratt Institute), “Mental Acuity Bot for the Elderly (MABel)”

Click here for more info about NYCDH Graduate Student Awards

Schedule

Noon – 12:30
Welcome and Introduction to the Week

12:30 – 2:00
“Finding, Cultivating, and Sustaining Support for Your DH Project” – A Roundtable

2:00 – 2:30
Break

2:30 – 4:00
Graduate Student award announcement and presentations

Noon – 12:30
Welcome and Introduction to the Week
12:30 – 2:00
“Finding, Cultivating, and Sustaining Support for Your DH Project” – A Roundtable
2:00 – 2:30
Break
2:30 – 4:00
Graduate Student Award Announcement and Presentations

Containing DH: How to Use Docker to Run Just About Anything
2022-02-08 08:00 - 10:00
This session with be a demonstration of how to use Docker in Reclaim Cloud to run just about any application on the web. It will be interactive in that after the initial demonstration we will be taking requests from the audience to install those hard to run applications in order to model the process. Come to this session if you want to get your Digital Humanities project up and running without the need of an IT department.

The Oracle for Transfeminist Technologies
2022-02-08 10:00 - 12:00
We need more spaces to practice what adrienne maree brown calls “radical imagination,” especially in digital humanities. In this session, we’ll be playing with The Oracle for Transfeminist Technologies deck (https://www.transfeministech.codingrights.org/) and collectively imagining responses that bring us closer to liberation and each other. “The wisdom of the Oracle, embedded with transfeminist values,” the deck’s instructions tell us, “will help us foresee a future where technologies are designed by people who are too often excluded from or targeted by technology in today’s world.” In breakout rooms, small groups will collaborate to redesign quotidian objects and imagine a more just future.

Early Career & Grad Student Networking Session
2022-02-08 12:00 - 13:00
For grad students and early-career faculty and staff, this session will provide a chance to share your work, meet others in working in DH in and near NYC, and exchange career advice.

Diamond Printers' Marks Reboot with Omeka and StoryMaps
2022-02-08 13:00 - 15:00
It is possible in a short space of time, and spending no money, to transform a dormant collection of photographs into a meaningful archive and a dramatic presentation using the platforms Omeka and StoryMaps. The process will be presented, as well as the products.

Introduction to Manifold, an Open Source Publishing Platform
2022-02-08 15:00 - 17:00
Please join us for a workshop on Manifold, a Mellon-funded digital publishing platform developed by the CUNY Graduate Center, The University of Minnesota Press, and Cast Iron Coding. Learn how you can use Manifold to create beautiful, dynamic projects that can include text, images, audio, video, and social annotation. We will provide an overview of Manifold and show you how to use it to publish scholarly works, host community discussion and/or peer review through annotations and reading groups, and create custom versions of public domain course texts and Open Educational Resources (OER). The workshop will include a hands-on demonstration of how to publish your first text—either something you have written or a public domain/openly licensed text. We will also cover how to customize your project’s structure, look, and feel, and how you can participate in conversations in the margins of your texts using Manifold’s social annotation features.

Survey Design for the Humanities
2022-02-08 15:00 - 17:00
While surveys are typically thought of as part of the social sciences’ toolkit, DH research can also benefit from designing, conducting, and examining surveys. This session will introduce participants to survey design best practices and recommendations on how to think about the results you obtain.
We will work with Qualtrics – a survey software platform – using their 30 day trial version of Design XM. Each workshop member will build a survey using Design XM and will collaboratively look at some survey results and discuss how these results can inform survey redesign and improvement.
Access to the 30 day, free, Qualtrics Design XM software: https://www.qualtrics.com/free-trial/?utm_lp=free-account-chart

Gitsertation: Scholarly Workflows with Git, Pandoc, and Zotero
2022-02-08 17:00 - 19:00
This workshop demonstrates how to use Git to manage a project. Concretely, we will be using the Git integration in VSCode along with the programs Pandoc and Zotero to create plain text documents that can be compiled, with citations, into Microsoft Word (or Google Docs) documents.
The workshop assumes some familiarity with Zotero (http://www.zotero.org) and a Zotero installation, but otherwise requires no previous software installation or familiarity with programming. All the same, students can prepare ahead of time by downloading VSCode (https://code.visualstudio.com/download)

Intro to Vector Tiles for Web: From QGIS to Mapbox
2022-02-09 10:00 - 12:00
Vector tiles are a flexible, lightweight format for serving geographic data that can be quickly and dynamically styled and displayed by a client such as a web browser. This workshop will first explain briefly how they work. Then we will walk through how you can export geographic data from any number of common formats in QGIS and serve it as vector tiles from Mapbox.

Fostering Community and Collaboration in the Digital Humanities within and beyond CUNY
2022-02-09 10:00 - 12:00
The CUNY Academic Commons is a WordPress/Buddy platform that connects students, faculty and staff across CUNY’s 25 campuses, acting as a hub for various DH activities across the university. The Commons facilitates the teaching of DH courses, sharing and hosting events, creating spaces for working groups to collaborate, and developing websites and digital projects. The flexibility of the Common’s WordPress/BuddyPress framework offers opportunities to work privately with a specific group or to host public-facing projects and events that invite participation from wider audiences.
The session will demonstrate how the CUNY Academic Commons framework offers a space to build community and foster collaboration for working in the digital humanities within and beyond CUNY. We will share examples of DH courses, working groups, projects, and events hosted on the platform. Drawing on our experiences supporting the CUNY Academic Commons, we will offer strategies for using WordPress/Buddypress platforms, such as the Humanities Commons, to facilitate collaboration and develop accessible, public resources beyond a university setting.

Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) Info Session
2022-02-09 12:00 - 13:00
The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is the US-based member of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) consortium. This session will introduce participants to the organization, its goals and activities, and identify how interested participants can become involved through programs or committee work, including mentorship, liaisons, or publications. Additional details can be found at https://ach.org/.

Publishing with Github Pages
2022-02-09 13:00 - 15:00
In this session you will learn the basics of using GitHub and its free web publishing tool, Github Pages. This tool allows you to easily publish simple websites (blogs, professional profiles, event announcements, etc) at no cost. This course will also serve as a soft introduction to markdown and yaml, folders and files, git and between the lines to Jekyll.

Introduction to IIIF, the International Image Interoperability Framework
2022-02-09 14:00 - 15:00
“Introduction to IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework)” shows the main uses and applications of interoperable digital images. Through image viewers, we can work with interoperable content to display, edit, annotate, and share images and cultural heritage collections on the web.

Digitalizing the Classroom: The Way Forward.
2022-02-09 17:00 - 19:00
Since the emergency online transition in March 2020, teachers have been gathering in strong communities to support each other exploring a plethora of theories (and praxis) on digital pedagogical tools. How effective were these in creating equally great students’ communities and fostering their engagement in classrooms? Back to a new normal in the Fall 2021, which pedagogical tools and techniques used when fully only online were still effective in the hybrid and in person instructions? What is the future of digital pedagogies in our constantly evolving classrooms with an increasing/decreasing interest of our students towards the digitalization of education?

Supporting Open Learning with Commons In A Box OpenLab
2022-02-10 08:00 - 10:00
Commons In A Box OpenLab (https://cboxopenlab.org/) is free, open source software that enables anyone to create a commons space specifically designed for open learning, where students, faculty, and staff can collaborate across disciplinary boundaries and share their work openly with one another and the world.
The project brings together Commons In A Box, the software that powers NYCDH (CBOX, https://commonsinabox.org/), and City Tech’s OpenLab platform for teaching, learning, and collaboration (https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/). The result is a teaching-focused version of CBOX that provides a powerful and flexible alternative to closed, proprietary systems, and is already being adopted at CUNY and beyond.
We will showcase CBOX OpenLab’s features and functionality, using examples from City Tech’s OpenLab and BMCC’s installation of the software (https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/), then discuss how CBOX OpenLab can support open learning in your community.

Mapping with Palladio
2022-02-10 09:00 - 10:00
“Mapping with Palladio” introduces scholars in the humanities to Palladio (https://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio), a web-based tool for visualizing multi-dimensional data on a map.

Introduction to Omeka
2022-02-10 10:00 - 12:00
Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. This workshop will explain the basics of why and when to use Omeka and include a walkthrough of how to use Omeka to manage online collections and create digital exhibitions.

Collecting Twitter Data for Research
2022-02-10 10:00 - 12:00
This workshop presents a few of the best and most approachable tools for collecting Twitter data for research. We’ll also address the kinds of information we can glean from social media data as well as several important factors and limitations to consider when doing social media research.

Open Refine for Beginners
2022-02-10 11:00 - 13:00
Looking to organize and rearrange a large spreadsheet for a project? Join us for an interactive, step-by-step introduction to OpenRefine, an open source desktop application described as “a powerful tool for working with messy data.” This session will cover OpenRefine basics including editing and reconciling data, transforming data into different formats, and connecting to external data sources like Wikidata and Getty Vocabularies.

Advanced Omeka
2022-02-10 13:00 - 15:00
Building on the Introduction to Omeka workshop, this workshop will show you how to gain greater control of your Omeka installation. Participants will learn the difference between different deployments of Omeka, how to manage your own hosted Omeka installation, and how to use plugins, themes, HTML, CSS, and PHP to customize your collections and exhibitions.
Although not required, attendees are encouraged to have file transfer (i.e. Cyberduck, Filezilla) and text editing software (i.e. TextEdit, Notebook, TextWrangler, TextMate, Bbedit) installed on their computers.

Textual Corpus Creation with Corpus-DB
2022-02-10 13:00 - 15:00
In this workshop, participants will learn how to set up a text analysis project, by automatically assembling a large collection of text, using the Corpus-DB API. Corpus-DB allows digital humanities researchers to quickly assemble a textual corpus, according to publication date, literary genre, author, and more. We will generate corpora which may be of interest to those in literary studies, history, and other text-based disciplines. No prior programming experience is required.

Seed to Scale: Leveraging Institutional Grants for Additional Funding
2022-02-10 13:00 - 15:00
This roundtable session features projects that have leveraged NYU DH Seed Grants to scale up and receive additional funding from external sources. Given the NYCDH theme of Support, panelists will share their processes and highlight elements of their work that made a difference in their ability to grow their projects and attract new funding. Participants will include:
Elaine Ayers, “”Inverting the Wunderkammer: Rethinking the Digital Humanities through Botanic Histories and Archives,”” $50,000 Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Hilke Schellmann and Mona Sloane, “Transparency For All – Bringing public records expertise, advanced AI, and editorial support to under-resourced newsrooms across America”, $200,000 from Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, to collaborate with MuckRock.
Since 2019, NYU Center for the Humanities, NYU Research Technologies, and NYU Libraries have jointly sponsored a DH Seed Grant program, which aims to seed projects that may go on to receive greater funding from other sources or otherwise build NYU’s institutional capacity in Digital Humanities work. Projects that give voice or expression to underrepresented communities; that engage with the urban fabric of the cities in which NYU has campuses; and that contribute to the subfield of Global Digital Humanities are especially welcomed. “

Lessons from Hybrid Teaching
2022-02-10 13:00 - 15:00
This free online NYC Digital Humanities session organized by Cinema Studies professor Marina Hassapopoulou will focus on hybrid teaching methods adaptable to various subjects and fields in the Humanities. Participants will be introduced to new (and DIY) tools and practices for collaborative learning, mind-mapping, visualizations, and other low/no-budget platforms. The demonstration and talk will be followed by a showcase of student projects and other virtual classroom activities.

Text Analysis with a Zine Corpus
2022-02-10 15:00 - 17:00
Working with transcribed zines from the Barnard Zine Library, we will engage participants in the ethics and steps of creating a corpus and how to explore them using Voyant-Tools and a pre-written Python script. Corpus metadata highlight zine creators holding one or more minoritized identities. All are welcome, and no coding experience is necessary.
This workshop is hosted by Filipa Calado (CUNY GC Ph.D student), Jenna Freedman (Barnard Zine Library curator), and Miranda Johnson (University of Wisconsin-Madison, MLIS student).

The Web Is All You Need: A Data Analysis Stack for the 2020s
2022-02-10 15:00 - 17:00
For most of the last decade digital humanists doing data analysis have chosen between R and Python. But in the past few years, the Javascript ecosystem has blossomed in a way that makes it a viable–and dare I say, fun–way to collaboratively share, explore, and analyze data. Students don’t need to install anything to start a lesson, collaborators can work directly with you in real time, and anyone who can code can easily add interactive sliders, controls to unlock datasets for others.
This workshop will provide an introduction to building and sharing data analysis for and of the web using observable notebooks. We’ll explore the basic platform, and how it improves on python- or r-based notebooks you may have used; introduce the arquero and vega-lite packages that allow data manipulation and visualization; and talk about some strategies for making even the largest datasets explorable to anyone with a smartphone.

DH Proposal Development
2022-02-10 16:00 - 18:00
You have an idea, but how do you get started with your digital project? If you’re interested in doing a digital humanities project, the best way to get started is with an effective plan. During this workshop, we will work hands-on beginning to develop a project proposal that can be used for purposes ranging from a thesis proposal to a grant proposal. We’ll identify existing resources and those that you need to complete your work, craft an audience statement, a statement o need, identify collaborators, and discuss how you will plan for outreach, data management, sustainability, and labor.
Come with your budding ideas and either pen and paper or your word processor so that you can begin working on your 1-2 page draft proposal.

NEH Funding Opportunities for Digital Humanities Projects
2022-02-10 17:00 - 19:00
This session will give attendees the opportunity to learn from NEH senior program officer, Jennifer Serventi, about the many funding opportunities offered by the National Endowment for the Humanities for digitally-inflected projects. In her presentation, she will address two related questions: 1) What opportunities are available to institutions, faculty and staff for digital projects? and, 2) What kinds of strategies can you employ to take advantage of them?
She also will discuss ways that you can participate in NEH projects and special initiatives beyond applying for an award directly from NEH.
Session will be conducted using Microsoft Teams

Interrogating the Archive and Digital Humanities through Latina Feminism
2022-02-11 09:00 - 11:00
This discussion focuses on the use of underrepresented archives to reconfigure how we understand the past in the aftermath of pivotal change and imagine a more inclusive future. The US Latino Digital Humanities program (USLDH) at the University of Houston draws from the rich archival collections at Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage (Recovery) in order to make visible the legacy of Latinxs in the United States.
We will discuss multiethnic archives, the attention to ethical choices when dealing with underrepresented materials, and the critical interventions that can take place at pedagogical and research levels to impact future change. The use of archival materials in research has the potential to create a more inclusive understanding of public history. Specifically, we will discuss how applying digital tools to underrepresented archives can amplify the complex voices of multiethnic histories. Furthermore, the panelists will describe a Latina feminist praxis that requires community work to preserve and raise awareness of history.
We will invite the audience to interrogate the ways they incorporate primary materials in their research and classrooms, and the ways these activities should/can engage the communities that are the subject of their research.

Musical Collaborations: Discussion & Knowledge Sharing
2022-02-11 10:00 - 12:00
The pandemic did not keep live music from happening, but it did change the way musicians played and recorded music with others and by ourselves. In this discussion, we’ll share our experiences from the past couple of years of making music, recording it, and attempts at playing live together while apart. What strategies did you use? What worked and what didn’t? How are tools like Garageband, LogicPro, SoundCloud, Soundtrap, Jamtaba, Zoom and similar apps making a positive impact on learning, growing, and supporting ourselves and our musical communities, online and in person? Where do these tools and virtual collaborations fall short and what can we do about it?
Active musicians, whether pro or amateur, and people who simply love to listen to music are invited to join this conversation to exchange ideas, strategies, and support.
Elizabeth Cornell supports initiatives for digital scholarship at Fordham University and serves as the director of communications for Fordham IT. She is a collaborating editor for the Digital Yoknapatawpha Project at the University of Virginia, which offers new views of William Faulkner’s works through digitized maps and timelines. She has published essays in South Central Review, Mississippi Quarterly, the Journal of American Studies, and elsewhere. Elizabeth serves on the steering committees for the Fordham Digital Scholarship Consortium and NYCDH.
Lisa Davidson is Professor and Chair of Linguistics and Director of the Phonetics & Experimental Phonology Lab at NYU. Her research is on the production and perception of connected speech, voice quality, and second language acquisition. She is the General Editor of Laboratory Phonology, and is on the editorial board of Journal of Phonetics. She
also serves on the Social Media Committee for the Linguistic Society of America.

Pandas: The Bare Basics
2022-02-11 10:00 - 12:00
Pandas is a Python data science library that allows for the manipulation and transformation of data, and in particular numeric and time series data. In this workshop for people completely new to Pandas, and possibly also to data science and/or programming, we’ll take a relatively leisurely look at the Pandas library in conjunction with the Jupyter Notebook environment. We’ll learn about the two main data structures in Pandas, the series and the dataframe, reading from and writing to file, indexing data (including boolean indexing), and describing data. If we have time, we may even make a chart! This workshop is not recommended for those already experienced with Pandas, we’ll be staying firmly in a beginner-friendly zone.
